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Airport Security and ARMOR - Newsweek

Publish Date:

Monday, October 22, 2007

Security officials at Los Angeles International Airport now have a new weapon in their fight against terrorism: randomness. Anxious to thwart future terror attacks in the early stages while plotters are casing the airport, security patrols have begun using a computer program called ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring of Routes) to make the placement of security checkpoints completely unpredictable. Now all airport security officials have to do is press a button labeled RANDOMIZE, and they can throw a sort of digital cloak of invisibility over where they place the cops' antiterror checkpoints on any given day...